Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

Use this assessment tool to identify strengths and areas for growth to enhance your team’s psychological safety.
 

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Explore concepts, terms, and foundational information about psychological safety on child welfare teams.

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.